SUNY Oswego State Employees Federated Appeal co-chair Cathy Johnston and Patrick Dewine, executive director of the United Way of Greater Oswego County, with some of the supplies from the 2021 Stuff-A-Bus drive.
The college’s State Employees Federated Appeal (SEFA) campaign announced sponsorship of the annual Stuff-A-Bus campaign, which provides school supplies to children in need in Oswego County’s nine school districts. Collection boxes around campus (see below) will receive drop offs. The collection is under way and will run through Aug. 19. The effort unfolds in partnership with the United Way of Greater Oswego County.
Members of the campus community are invited to help provide Oswego County schoolchildren with the supplies they will need, including:
- Backpacks
- Loose-leaf paper
- Spiral notebooks (one-subject through five-subject types)
- Dry erase markers
- Composition books
- Thumb drives
- D-ring binders (between one and two inches)
- Tabbed dividers for binders
- Pocket folders
- Post-It notes
- Simple function calculators
- Glue sticks
- Rulers
- #2 Pencils
- Index cards
- Hard pencil cases
- Blue/black pens
- Erasers
- Highlighters
- Crayons
- Safety scissors
- Colored pencils
- Markers
Drop-off locations include:
- Culkin Hall lobby and Provost’s Office/703 Culkin
- Marano Campus Center/Compass -- contact Tina Cooper
- Park and Wilbur -- 103 Park Hall, or contact Cindy DeWolf
- Rice Creek Field Station lobby -- contact is Kristen Haynes
- Rich Hall -- contact Tara Allen Magner
- 229 Sheldon Hall -- Room 229 (Admissions) or contact Cindy Jackson or Tina Trumble
- Shineman Center -- contact Kristin Gublo
- Tyler Hall -- contact Judy Collette or Traci Terpening
More locations to come but if you have questions, contact cathy.johnston@oswego.edu.